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Alchemy Stones

@alchemystones

Art project of @denmarkguy. Hand painted mandala stones with a spiritual and metaphysical angle.

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Alchemy Stones
@alchemystones Sep 3, 2026, 5:04 PM UTC

Art and Creativity Journal: An Inevitable Day of Office Work!

I know I have been putting this off for a while, so today I decided to knuckle under and have a day of purely doing office work and following up on administrative odds and ends. Because Alchemy Stone…

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Alchemy Stones
@alchemystones Aug 31, 2026, 3:30 AM UTC

Art and Creativity Journal: Only a Month to Go!

It always surprises me just how fast time moves on by! I'm certain the experience is different for full-time artists who are only focused on their creative endeavors, but as a definite "sometimer" I…

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Alchemy Stones
@alchemystones Aug 5, 2026, 6:57 AM UTC

Art and Creativity Journal: The Tiniest Things

In the last update I was talking about painting the small things that serve us well as "impulse items" at shows and festivals. While double checking and quality sorting my smallest unpainted stones,…

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Alchemy Stones
@alchemystones Aug 3, 2026, 8:55 AM UTC

Art and Creativity Journal: Painting Some Small Stuff

One of the things about doing outside events and shows is that we invariably have to have an extensive stock of quick pick-up impulse items in the under $10 range. Meticulously hand painting small st…

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Alchemy Stones
@alchemystones Jul 29, 2026, 8:11 AM UTC

Art and Creativity Journal: Routine Busy Work

Trying to get a bit of momentum going, I spent much of the day doing some routine "busy work" relating to getting ready for fall show season. It's not exactly "creative," but it still has to be done.…

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Alchemy Stones
@alchemystones Jul 23, 2026, 6:49 AM UTC

Art and Creativity Journal: More Newly Finished Work

Sometimes, you just have to forge ahead regardless of whether you feel like it or not. So, today I made myself go to work on finishing another batch of stones that had been painted sometime during th…

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Alchemy Stones
@alchemystones Jul 8, 2026, 8:31 AM UTC

Art and Creativity Journal: New Work... Finished

Finally managed to put a finish coat on painted stones from earlier in the spring, resulting in what I guess we would call new inventory even though it is kind of old! Anyway, getting the stones fini…

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Alchemy Stones
@alchemystones Jul 4, 2026, 7:45 AM UTC

Art and Creativity Journal: Updates Are Time Consuming!

Trying to stay true to my word (to myself), I spent some time today working on social media updates. Specifically, I was responding to a request from Patreon to "update my profiles" because they were…

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Alchemy Stones
@alchemystones Jul 2, 2026, 7:59 AM UTC

Art and Creativity Journal: Work Resumes!

Well, we have arrived at the second half of the year 2026, and even though calendars are a pretty arbitrary thing it seems like a good reason to resume creative work, or at least to try to! I want to…

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Alchemy Stones
@alchemystones Jun 24, 2026, 8:23 AM UTC

Art and Creativity Journal: Beach Tripping

Last week, we finally got away for a trip to the "big" beach, out on Washington's Pacific coast. These trips to the Pacific coast matter because the stones there tend to be much more "even" shaped, f…

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